Camera RAW Filter Blacked Out, Unusable

[warpspeed86]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to get around this weird bug where Camera RAW Filter UI is completely blacked out and unusable? I can't navigate between the different panels and I can't tell which adjustment is what (see screenshot). I have tried restarting my Mac as well as uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop, to no avail.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi there,

That does not sound good, could you please try reinstalling the Camera Raw plugin and let us know if it helps?
Camera Raw plug-in installer

Regards,
Sahil

[warpspeed86]

Thanks for the swift reply!

Unfortunately, that didn't seem to work. I went to the webpage and installed plugin 11.3.1, but the Camera Raw Filter UI is still bugged out.

In addition, going to About Plugins > Camera RAW also yields a black box.

[warpspeed86 · Accepted solution]

In the end, I had to go to the extreme to resolve this issue.

I ended up doing a complete OS reinstall on my MacBook Pro, which was unfortunate and time consuming but ultimately did resolve the issue.

[Jeff Arola]

Did you ever use any "Cleaner" applications that are advertised as making your mac faster and cleaner?

[warpspeed86]

The only thing that I would consider close to a "cleaner" app on my Mac was Avast, but generally I'm very careful with what I install from online. I never had problems with Camera Raw even with Avast installed though; it just started acting up today. The Time Machine backup that I restored my Mac to doesn't have Avast, and things seem okay. I'm not sure if Avast was the culprit.

[Nursetjv]

were you able to resolve your camera Raw issue because I am experiencing the same 😞